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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science.

I'm Jason Goldman.

Babies are constantly surrounded by human language, always listening and processing.

Eventually they put sounds together to produce a daddy or a mama.

But what is still elusive to neuroscientists is exactly how the brain works

to put it all together. To begin to figure it out, a team of researchers turned to a frequent

stand-in for human infants when it comes to language learning, the song learning zebrafinch.

Well, we've known for about 70 years or so that songbirds learned their song by first forming a memory of their father's song.

Or another adult song.

And then they use that memory in order to guide their song learning.

Neuroscientist Todd Roberts from the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Texas.

It's been a long-term goal of the field to try to figure out how or where in the brain

this memory is. This form of learning, this type of imitative learning that birds do, is very similar to the

type of learning that we engage in on a regular basis, particularly when we're young. We use

this type of learning to guide our speech learning. Roberts and his team had a hunch that the interface

between sensory areas and motor areas in the brain was critical for this process.

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